Thanks to @roywilliams.bsky.social my first Blair’s Mocha #UKMoths #mothsmatter

Small Blues Cupido minimus, at least six seen this afternoon in the quarry at Berry Head. Nearly all were seen on the hill leading down into the quarry.

More of the Reed Warbler #UKBirding

Cuckoo on Dartmoor. #UKBirding

Common Redstart on Dartmoor today. #UKBirding

Common Whitethroat in full song at Berry Head this evening. @UKBirding

Reed Warbler at Slapton NNR today.

Reeling GHWarbler 200m south of memorial car park, in scrub between footpath and Ley @DevonBirds #UKBirding

Green-winged orchid on the Dorset coast at the weekend. The colours are intense! @ukorchids.bsky.social #orchids

Male Pied Flycatcher on Dartmoor, checking a potential nest site and establishing a territory before the females arrive later this month. #ukbirding

Thanks to the 300 or so who have followed this account so far. There's still several thousand following the Twitter account so please spread the word about the benefits of Bluesky. #adfree #muskfree #migrantmothuk #teammoth #mothsmatter

Dog sitting for 3 weeks has its benefits! Walking the dog at Bantham 11.30 this morning and found a Kentish Plover on the tideline of the main beach. Constantly flushed by surfers and walkers it didn’t hang around on a rising tide. No pic so a cute dog snap will have to do 😜

Out and about today in #SouthDevon first Coleton Fishacre. Then Broadsands to put seed down for the Cirl Buntings. Managed to find Yellow-browed Warblers at both sites! Below left Broadsands bird and right Pudcombe Cove at Coleton Fishacre both in willow scrub.

Red-necked Grebe still, from fisherman’s platform and another Ring Ouzel in the quarry at Berry Head this morning.

One of the many Firecrest at Berry Head this week.

Image of today’s Red-necked Grebe at Berry Head, interesting to compare with the Portland bird.

Red-necked Grebe just off the fisherman’s platform at Berry Head quarry first light.

Short seawatch at Berry Head early am: 5 Balearic, 1 Arctic Skua, 1 ad.Little Gull, 14 Med Gull, single Common Tern and hundreds of Kittiwake & Auks. Later in the quarry 5 Firecrest & 100+ Redwing overhead.

Glad we went, cracking bird, performed perfectly.

11.45am Single Whooper Swan Broadsands beach, Paignton 50m from the shoreline.

Crimson Speckled (U. pulchella) observed by day on Tresco, Isles of Scilly on 16/10. R. Dryden per B. Dawson.

1.30pm YBW still Berry Head quarry.

Berry Head: YBW & 2 Ring Ouzel in the quarry, 30+ Redwing overhead (rain stopped play).

Berry Head 2.45pm Ring Ouzel in the quarry feeding on rose hips.

Berry Head quarry this am, 15+ Chiff, 5 B/cap, Garden Warbler and my first Firecrest of the autumn.

Berry Head around the headlands early afternoon, 7 Wheatear and 1st w Common Redstart.

Great to catch up with @bikingbirder.bsky.social at Portland today the Western Subalpine Warbler was a nice bonus.

Just a Greenfinch, Mansands, nr. Brixham

Bird activity at Berry Head, Brixham concentrated in a stand of flowering hawthorn at the back of the quarry, 8 or 9 Willow W, 10+ Chiff, 4 B/cap, a single House Martin overhead.

Happy days, just added Cormorant to the garden list 👍

Alpine Swift in off the sea over Shoalstone Shelter, Brixham, 11.20am for 5mins before heading inland over the town.

Yellow Brain fungus on Dartmoor today.

8 Sand Martin Exminster Marshes, Devon this am, high over middle carpark.

First post on this platform, has to be a big one 😜 Griffon Vulture high in the mountains of Spain.